Tim Lee argues that a number of developments in the broadband market suggest that U.S. broadband policy is broken and badly in need of revision. He makes a compelling case, though I am somewhat more optimistic about the emergence of “third pipe” alternatives to the phone and cable incumbents.

He also has a terrific post that illustrates how incumbent firms — which tend to be slow-moving bureaucratic entities — actually make decisions in practice, and how even the most forward-looking of them create barriers to innovation.